The operation has no code name, but it's the fruit of about a year's planning by the U.S. Southern Command to insert a newly formed expeditionary outfit into the U.S.-run swath of the Soto Cano air base in Honduras for about 200 days, the longest, largest known Marine deployment onto Central American turf in years.

America as Dangerous Flailing BeastDespite pretty talk about "democracy" and "human rights," U.S. leaders have become the world's chief purveyors of chaos and death – from Vietnam through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other unfortunate nations.

Long-time readers know that I have maintained from the outset that the US government's story is a work of fiction. However, my position is that OBL was already long dead by that time. I think Hersh's account is unnecessarily complicated and highly unlikely. -- RF

The key points that the U.S. government still doesn't want you to know include that in early 1981 Israel already was supplying U.S. military equipment to Iran for its war with Iraq; that the Saudis had conveyed a "green light" supposedly from President Jimmy Carter to Saddam Hussein to invade Iran in 1980; and that the Saudis agreed to finance arms sales to Pakistan and other states in the region.